| | Chp 10: Kindling a New National Grand Council Fire, Native American liberty and the U.S. Constitution, "Exemplar Of ... |
 | | Americans of European descent who continued to wrestle with the formation of their national institutions faced a dilemma: they seemed to need a stronger government than the Articles of Confederation had provided, but to shift too far in the other direction would imitate the monarchies that they had repudiated. |
| | In the midst of the Constitutional Convention in recalling such American Indian stories, Franklin was playing the role of "philosopher as savage." Certainly, Franklin and Rush's association with the Constitutional Sons of Saint Tammany and their use of American Indian imagery was on their minds in the summer of 1787. |
| | Americans not only had forged a new identity but also a new political structure that was a synthesis of the European and the Native American worlds. |
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